What citrus is this? (forum)

Anthony starts with ...
Picked a few of these(on the right), up at work thinking that they were limes. Shape was a bit weird, but the look was generally right. Smooth, thin skin, super juicy looking.
Cut open the flesh is more orange than green, with a nice grapefruit flavour, a few seeds.
Any idea what they could be? I think they are locally grown(Lockyer Valley) as they weren’t packaged in a particular way, just in an old box.
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Time: 17th April 2018 7:48pm

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jakfruit etiquette says...
I'm guessing it might be an Australian Lime, usually a mildly sour lemon mandarin type flavour, mostly they are seedless, but some have seeds.
Kassia Lime is also possible.
Otherwise it could be unique, consider growing the seed ??

Time: 22nd April 2018 10:24am

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Fruitylicious1 says...
Hi Anthony

I think the unusual lime that you found is a seed grown cv. We all know that most seed grown fruit trees doesn't grow true to type . There is a great variability among pip raised plants. It might have been pollinated by a non-lime cv nearby and the seeds harvested and planted hence the resulting fruit looks different from your conventional lime. That's my humble opinion though, I might be incorrect.

Happy gardening :-)




Time: 22nd April 2018 5:31pm

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Anthony says...
I’ve discovered the name of the gentleman who dropped these particular variety into work, so when I see him next I will ask about it and hopefully find out what it is.
A lot of people have suggested Lemonade, but from what I’ve seen it’s not likely.
Will let you know when I know.
Thanks.

Time: 22nd April 2018 7:05pm

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jakfruit etiquette says...
If its not what we think i would love some seed.

Time: 23rd April 2018 12:05pm

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Fruitylicious1 says...
Hi Anthony

I also took a good hard look at a lemonade fruit but i wasn't fully convinced that it is a lemonade. The shape, color, texture and rind is a bit different. I have uploaded a lemonade fruit image for comparison purposes.

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Time: 23rd April 2018 8:38pm

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Anthony says...
So, I’ve decided to try and grow a few of these seeds to see what happens. I haven’t run into the man who grew these particular fruit, but I’ll start growing them anyway.


Time: 25th April 2018 6:44pm

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